Casino streams: authority investigating Neymar

At the beginning of this year, we had reported that the professional footballer Neymar Jr. has started a career as a casino streamer on Twitch. A few weeks later and the Brazilian football star is now being investigating by the authorities. The French Gambling Authority is investigating Neymar for illegal gambling advertising.

Things are going far from well now for the Brazilian football star Neymar Jr. At the beginning of March, it was announced that the professional, who is currently under contract with the French football club PSG, will be out of action for a longer period because of a serious injury. Now the French Gambling Authority, l’Autorité nationale des jeux (ANJ) is investigating the player for having illegally advertised games of chance. Background: At the end of January we had reported on GambleJoe that Neymar Jr. will start streaming casino content on Twitch. This occupation as a gambling streamer brought him into trouble with the authorities.

Neymar is being eyed by the French Gambling Authority

As several media have reported in the past weeks, the French Gambling Authority is currently investigating whether Neymar is guilty of having broadcasted poker streams of forbidden adverts for online games of chance. Recently he had often streamed gambling content on Twitch. He has entered a multi-million partnership with Blaze Casino which does not even have a valid games of chance licence in France.

Besides this, it was recently announced that Neymar Jr. has lost around 1 million Euro in a single poker session. The authorities are now investigating the football player. However, the investigations are not yet official since the initial suspicion still needs to be confirmed. It is also questionable whether the French authorities are the relevant authorities responsible for this case. At the time when the casino streams were broadcasted, Neymar was on French grounds. The football star is under contract with the French Club PSG and thus the centre of his life is in France. However, since Neymar was seriously injured, he was staying at his home country.

Soon after it was announced that he has decided to start streaming casino content on Twitch and he started receiving criticism from all sides. It was implied that since he is a role model for many children and youths, he could also inspire them to start gambling.

Meanwhile even other casino streamers are having problems with the investigating authorities. We had reported last February that the German casino streamer Ron Bielecki must pay a fine of nearly half a million Euro.

Conclusion

The French gambling authority is currently trying to establish if at the time when the football star Neymar was streaming the casino sessions he was doing so from France. If this is the case, there is the possibility that Neymar can be found guilty of streaming illegal gambling advertisements. Neymar did not need the gambling deal he made with Blaze Casino. According to Statista his wealth comes up to nearly 300 million Euro. We are excited to see what will be the result of the preliminary investigations being carried out by the French gambling authority. 

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